Pacifica

Tumblr about the The relationship between countries in the Asia Pacific region and the United States and its allies with a specialization in the military interactions and relatively recent history.

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Battle of Saigon, 1968

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U.S. Military Personnel on the streets of D.C. after the assassination of Martin Luther King, April 1968

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Screengrabs off 35mm film shot for Werner Herzog’s Lessons of Darkness in the Aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War

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Eros Hoagland's photography from his coverage of The Iraq and Afghan Wars

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Photographs by João Silva featured in “Conflict”

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Photos by Pete Muller featured in the documentary “Conflict”

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KUWAIT. Burgan oil feilds. 1991. U. S. Marines pose with a burnt-out vehicle on which they have written “Free Kuwait”.

Photograph: Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos

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Screen grabs from news footage of the 1991 Gulf War

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Battle of Khafji Saudi Arabia January, 1991

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Anti ISIS groups in Iraq Taken from footage used in Vice: Fighting Isis

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U.S. Army OPFOR at Fort Polk Louisianna’s Tigerland

1970

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Navy SEALs during the Vietnam War

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Screen grabs from footage taken during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990

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In a screengrab of archival footage U.S. Soldiers stand in the aftermath of a SCUD missile attack in Saudi Arabia circa January 1991

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Screen grabs from an ITV documentary on the Iran-Iraq War

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Papua New Guinea Defence Force in Bougainville 1991

The PNGDF was confirmed to have committed war crimes during the conflict including the unauthorized use of 4 Australian loaned UH-1 Huey helicopters in dumping bodies from extrajudicial killings in addition to utilizing them in a gunship capacity which was against the terms of the loan agreement.

The diplomatic and strategic stalemate between the BRA and the PNGDF and would lead to the hiring of private contractors from Sandline International to retake the copper mine at the center of the conflict which led to the Sandline Affair in the late 1990s.

Footage taken from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners program “Blood on the Bougainvillea - 24 Jun 1991“

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Screen grabs of footage of the U.S. Deployment in Somalia during the early 1990s